Air-conditioning is rare in the U.K. Could heat waves change that? 📝: eloise_barry
While it’s possible to retrofit older houses with air-conditioning units, many are built with brick and have no—or very small—air cavities. This makes itto install air-conditioning, particularly when pre-existing hot water and electrical systems get in the way. It’s also common in the U.K. to live in what Brits call a “terraced” house—known as a row house in the U.S.—a property that shares a wall with the neighbors next door.
While it’s rare to have air-conditioning in U.K. homes, it’s more common at work. It’s hard to determine exactly how prevalent air-conditioning is in offices, but aby the Building Research Establishment estimated that 65% of office spaces and 30% of retail space in the U.K. have air-conditioning. Office buildings tend to have been built more recently than many British homes, and companies have more money to spend on retrofitting older buildings.
But both the shift to remote working and the disruption to public transport caused by the heat meant that many British employees had to work in their homes on Monday and Tuesday without air-conditioning. Despite periodic spikes in sales of air-conditioning units, Hamilton predicts that they will only become widespread in the U.K. when summer heat waves become more frequent and last longer. But climate change is pushing the world in this direction—a
shows that Europe is a heat wave hotspot, with temperature extremes increasing three to four times faster than regions on similar latitudes, partly due to changes in the jet stream—air currents five to seven miles above Earth’s surface.
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